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We are fundraising for Sierra Leone Grammar School. An educational institution that gave my grandad, Reverend Ernest Prince Nicol his secondary schooling in Sierra Leone before he left for the UK.

We are using this challenge to raise funds for West Africa’s oldest educational institution the Sierra Leone Grammar School (SLGS).

Though the school has a history of excellence in learning and continues to support tomorrow’s bright young minds from across Sierra Leone, a decade of civil war has left it in need of repair, renovation and modernisation.

All of the money raised will go towards the renovation of the School, equipment and technology investment.

My Grandad went to this school starting his studies there in 1938. It is an honour for me to raise funds for a School that he studied at. This is small way for me to give back and reconnect with a land my forefathers come from.

In addition to this, my fiancé Janet and I are climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, we aim to be at the summit on her 30th birthday.

We would greatly appreciate your support, however big or small.

Thanks for visiting our fundraising page.

Janet and Akeem

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Sierra Leone Grammar School (SLGS)

Sierra Leone Grammar School, or SLGS, is West Africa’s oldest educational institution. It has supported and developed the country’s most promising young minds since 1845. Alumni of the school include Ministers, senior civil servants, eminent lawyers and pioneering medical professionals.

Though it has a proud history of excellence in learning, a decade of civil war in the region has left the school in urgent need of repair, renovation and modernisation. All funds raised in this challenge will help complete the school’s ongoing projects, such as the construction of new STEM science labs, part of a wider initiative to make the campus a hub of STEM and computer science.

With other investments including improved internet connectivity, new study spaces, refreshed ICT facilities and an ongoing COVID strategy including remote classrooms, every penny raised will have an impact on the richness of education available to SLGS’s pupils.

Other areas supported by your sponsorship include: the SLGS Gifted and Talented (GaT) scholarship fund, established in 2005 to support families experiencing financial or personal difficulties with their child’s education; the SLGS Innovation programme, immersing our students in a world standard STEM curriculum; the wider modernisation of our science facilities, replacing our outdated, crumbling classrooms with spacious, fully equipped and state-of-the-art spaces; the first Cisco Net Academy School in Sierra Leone, giving our young innovators and their teachers free access to their world-renowned ICT Curriculum; a modernised computer lab with the latest hardware and programs; increased internet connectivity throughout the school; and our exceptional response to COVID, including rapidly deployed virtual classroom learning.

Sponsorship support from events like climbing Mount Kilimanjaro continue to have an impact on the richness of education available to SLGS’s pupils, and the standard of education throughout West Africa.

We are planning for a bright future, embedding STEM learning at the School. All of this is dependent on the continued belief and investment of the School’s donors. Our science facilities are currently in desperate need of renewal, and the state-of-the-art plans we have to update them simply won’t happen without the vital donations we oversee. More details can be found here:
https://stemforslgs175.com/stem-at-slgs/